Diego Menchaca held off Douglas Motorsport team mate Charlie
Eastwood to take his first ever BRDC F4 win in a dramatic opening
race at Snetterton, which had to be restarted following two early
accidents.

Sennan Fielding fought through to take third and close the gap
to the championship leaders, while Gaetano di Mauro looked on
course to take his fourth podium of the year before being passed
late on by Fielding.

Struan Moore took fifth for Lanan Racing, ahead of Raoul Hyman
who starred by rising from 18th to finish sixth.

George Russell originally started the race from pole position,
but finished seventh ahead of team mate and championship leader
Arjun Maini.

At the original start, Menchaca made the best getaway and was
able to out-drag Russell on the run to Riches on lap one, while
Gaetano di Mauro was able to move past Russell also and take
third.

Further back, Diego Borrelli and Rodrigo Fonseca collided at
Palmer corner on lap one, while a further tangle between Will
Palmer and Jordan Albert at Montreal hairpin brought out the red
flags with the cars interlocked on track.

After a lengthy delay, the race resumed over six laps, with
Menchaca lining up on pole, the grid positions taken from the order
when the red flag came out. The Mexican repeated his good start and
held the lead, while Eastwood climbed into second. The pair lapped
nose-to-tail throughout, with Menchaca keeping his team mate at bay
by just 0.247s at the flag.

Behind the Douglas duo, the championship contenders hit more
trouble. Russell made a better start from third place on the
restart, and challenged di Mauro. As he did so, Eastwood, lining-up
fourth was able to move past the pair to take second. Russell was
also passed by team mate Struan Moore, and was down to fifth at the
end of the first racing lap.

On the fourth lap, Moore challenged di Mauro through Riches and
at Montreal. Moore was delayed and allowed Russell to get a run on
him heading to Palmer corner, but Russell was squeezed out and fell
to seventh with Hyman moving into sixth, while Fielding moved past
the Lanan duo to take fourth.

With the Lanan drivers suffering, Fielding was well placed to
make inroads into the championship lead, and was able to move past
di Mauro on the last lap to take third place.

Maini still leads the championship, by a slightly reduced margin
of 19 points, while Fielding in third is now just 22 points behind
Maini and three behind Russell. Hyman stays fourth and is 34 points
adrift of Maini. Moore and Palmer can no longer win the
championship.

Menchaca commented: "Charlie made my life quite hard but I'm so
happy to finally take my first win. I really want to thank all the
guys at Douglas Motorsport, they've been amazing all year.

"We've been through some tough times but we made it and now
we're here. Few people know this, but my best friend passed away
two weeks ago and I want to dedicate this win to him."

Menchaca, Eastwood and Fielding were presented with their
trophies on the podium by BRDC member Joey Foster.